1967pontiacfirebird wrote:i bought two southord lockpick sets and one of my short hook picks has bent and i tried to bed it back and i think it made it really weak. if it does end up breaking will southord replace it for free? or do they not have a warranty?
nope. if you're bending or breaking the pics, then its a case of what they call "you're doing it wrong"
if those picks cost what $3 bucks each, you honestly want a warranty on that?
When I started picking, I bent or broke every pick in my set and broke both wrenches. That's before I found this forum where someone told me I was being heavy handed. I was trying to brute force locks to open, which in retrospect is not how this works. Consider it a learning moment, and go ahead and beat up on this set as much as you can while learning, then the next $20 bucks get a set that you won't make the same mistakes on, that's what I did.
Most folks hold the tension wrench much too hard ,which makes people lever up on the pins so hard that it breaks or deforms picks. if your finger is turning white where you're pressing the tension wrench, or if you cant insert the pick into the lock easily, its because there's too much torque on the plug, so dont press so hard on the wrench, instead, just hold your finger on the wrench, with just enough force that it doesnt yet start to bend, just before that point.
We all started somewhere, these things happen. Keep on practicing, and buy an individual replacement from lockpickshop.com after it totally breaks off.
Squelchtone
